MRO Music Industry Seminar by Todd Brabec The online/digital world has changed many of the ways that music is licensed as well as the amount of royalties that songwriters, composers and music publishers receive. This new world has created many new areas of exploitation and opportunity including music in apps, video games, e-cards, digital jukeboxes and interactive dolls and toys, to name but a few. In addition, many new forms of mechanical licensing and performances have come into existence - locker services, downloads, bundled services, ringtones and ringbacks, subscription and streaming services - all with new royalty rates . This seminar will discuss the types of deals, the negotiating process and the actual royalties being generated by songwriters and publishers in the online world. It will also cover many of the traditional areas of music licensing (radio, tv and live performances; film, television and advertising song licensing; record sales; songs in musicals, etc.) and...

NYC ELECTRONICA CONCERT PREMIERS NEW CYBORG MACHINIMA FILM Vox Novus  will be premiering my latest machinima short film "Singularity" this Thursday in NYC. If you are in the area, hope you check it out! And please SHARE.  - Sabrina Peña Young Singularity : The point in time which accelerated technologies will cause a runaway effect in which artificial intelligence will supersede human intelligence and control, forever and irreversibly transforming society. Estimated year of Singularity: 2045. Enjoy your humanity while you can. Circuit Bridges (Up to Upstate) When Thu, March 26, 7:30pm – 11:00pm Where Gallery MC, 549 W 52nd St,  New York, NY , United States ( map ) Description Circuit Bridges and Buffalo State University are collaborating to present music by composers from New York (both upstate and down). J. Tomas Henriques and Sabrina Pena Young are building a program centered around Buffalo, New York , that will complement Ci...

Like many contemporary composers, I am fascinated with the correlation between music and the visual arts. The cross-pollination of the arts has given birth to many great compositions and visual works. Dr. Kristine H. Burns (see link in Artist Links) at Florida International University has mastered an animation style utilizing Final Cut Pro's Video Generator features. She used it for her amazing video piece, Copper Islands. Final Cut Pro has a variety of Video Generators available. You can create a simple color matte, text, shapes, bars, noise, etc. For electroacoustic composers, think of these as the basic sine, triangle, and square waves (and noise, of course) that a composer manipulates electronically through sound synthesis. These are building blocks. You need to be familiar with the KEY FRAME feature available in Final Cut Pro. By setting KEY FRAMES you can alter an effect over time. Start with something basic, say a basic Color Matte with a Mask Shape (ex. a circle) over it. N...